Last weekend I headed down to Kenai with Don to collect me annual salmon stock with the dip net.  Unfortunately the fish, wild crowds (pictured above) and waves were less then cooperative and I only came home with five fish.   Luckily my disappointment with the lack of fish was cushioned by the most luxurious dip netting accommodations I’ve yet to experience out at Don’s friend Rodger’s compound in North Kenai.  So instead of  brooding on the beach in the rain we lounged in leather recliners eating moose jerky and watching Cops, which kind of evened things out.  Anyway, I’ll be going back for more fish, next time too Kasilof, and I’m  hoping it will be more successful.

Mikey, Max and I spent the weekend up a seldom used valley on the Peninsula, the snow was great, the snowmachines ran well, and the skiing was too good for this early in the season. I’ll have all sorts of video (of the steeper rocky stuff directly behind the spot from where I took the photo above) pictures and stories later this week. Max, Mikey and Jessie are going to check Placer out tomorrow, I wish I could join them, but I have a couple more days in the office to deal with.

A couple of scary avalanche stories to mull over while I get the new post up; one from Alaska, with a positive ending, another from Utah, inbounds at Snowbird, with a much worse ending, and a further incident in Colorado.

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